July 2018 (ODROID-GO)

This month we celebrate Hardkernel’s 10-year anniversary with the release of the ODROID-GO, which is an amazing mobile development platform as well as retro-gaming system! We have a look at getting more acceleration from our XU4 with GPU accelerated Qt5 and OpenCL. We also look at getting a Tor relay, Recalbox, and Player Unknown’s Battleground (PUBG) running on our XU4 as well. Luckily we have a 2 part guide this month on liquid cooling to keep all these awesome projects running smoothly at peak performance. DongHyun Yoo shows us how to do object tracking with the XU4, and Erik Koennecke shows us some helpful insight into using BASH. Additionally, we have an informative look at Linux Gaming with an article from Tobias, and a great DIY Smart Light Project using Home Assistant from Adrian Popa. Be sure you have a look at this!

It is really hard to remember what happened in the past 5 years due to the limitation of my brain capacity, but let me try to recall what changes have happened. 5 years ago, Hardkernel had 11 people including me but we have 26 members today. ▶

The Docker team has developed a clustering and scheduling tool for Docker containers, called swarm. This article describes how one can create an ODROID-HC1 based swarm cluster. This cluster fits in a 19″ rack. ▶

After all the theoretical stuff in the last few parts of this series, we’re going to take a breather and deal with clever ways to increase productivity in BASH when working with ODROID. The default Ubuntu MATE system is chock-full of useful utilities without requiring so much as installing additional programs. Now, let us take this unused potential for a spin. ▶

We are excited to announce that it’s our 5th anniversary of the ODROID magazine! Justin Lee, CEO of Hardkernel, gives us the history of the company in our “Meet An ODROIDian” section. Additionally, Bruno does an amazing job of giving us a retrospective of ODROID magazine in his article. If ▶